Tag Archives: business

OTTAWA - The federal jobs minister is urging the union representing striking Canada Post workers to respond to the Crown corporation's latest offers. Patty Hajdu told reporters on the way into the Lib...

LONGUEUIL - The trial of a former Hydro-Qubec employee facing economic espionage charges remains on hold over arguments about the utility's commercial secrets. Hydro-Qubec prompted the delay after int...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is introducing new legislation aimed at making sure construction workers and contractors are paid on time. Attorney General Niki Sharma says the bill is abou...

VICTORIA - Premier David Eby says a pipeline plan across northern B.C. by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith threatens community support and social licence that would allow other major projects along the ...

OTTAWA - Labour standards in Canada's trucking sector are under scrutiny as a House of Commons committee launched a study of the issue this week and the Bloc Qubcois called on the government to end wh...

VANCOUVER - Too many wildland firefighters "hang up their boots" in British Columbia as wages and working conditions erode, but losing that experience could also mean billions in losses, a wildland fi...

MONTREAL - Two years after their home was expropriated to make way for a rail bypass, Lac-Mgantic, Que., resident Raymond Savoie and Rita Boulanger are still fighting to stay in the stone cottage wher...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's NDP leader is highlighting a pair of her party's housing bills she says were lost in the government's rush to wrap up the fall sitting of the legislature. Claudia Chender says ...

OTTAWA - Ottawa's fiscal watchdog says that while there are good ideas in the new budget framework the federal government announced this week, its definition of capital spending could blur the picture...

TORONTO - Shares of Trilogy Metals Inc. more than tripled in early trading after the U.S. government announced it would take a 10 per cent stake in the mineral exploration company. Shares in the Vanco...